hectolitre

One hundred liters

A hectolitre is a metric unit of volume equal to 100 litres—roughly 26 U.S. gallons.

The unit appears most often in commercial contexts, particularly wine and beer production: The vineyard produced 850 hectolitres this harvest.

Also spelled hectoliter.

brewing

beer

Fermented grain drink

barrel · keg · vat · brewery · winery · batch · production · yield · cask · tank

agriculture

grain

Cereal plant's harvest unit

barley · corn · silo · bushel · crop · irrigation · storage · commodity · quota · subsidy

trade

wholesale

Bulk sales to merchants

import · quota · pricing · tanker · shipment · customs · duty · tariff · contract · futures

metric

decalitre

Ten-liter measurement

gram · meter · centimeter · kilometer · SI · decimal · conversion · prefix · standard · international

Opposites
volume magnitude

hectolitremillilitre

Metric volume unit

microlitre · centilitre · decilitre · drop · thimbleful

Family

hectoliter, hectoliters

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